Awake brain surgery offers significant advantages for patients
Neurologic testing during surgery offers patients who are treated for brain tumors, focal epilepsy, cavernomas and arteriovenous malformations an additional layer of safety. Forgoing anesthesia allows patients to provide immediate feedback to surgeons during and after surgery. Recovery is rapid.

Mouse model exhibits pathologies and symptoms associated with ALS
A new mouse model sheds light on a link between the C9ORF72 repeat expansion and inclusions of TDP-43, a protein that has long been known to go awry in the majority of ALS and frontotemporal dementia cases.

SIH is more commonly diagnosed as a cause of headaches
Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is typically the result of spontaneous cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) leak at the spine level. It now appears that the core pathogenic factor in SIH is decreased CSF volume rather than decreased CSF opening pressure.

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Aug. 7-9, 2015, in San Francisco
This course provides an update in the diagnosis and management of both primary and secondary headache and facial pain disorders. The format includes lectures, expert panel discussions, interactive question-and-answer sessions, hands-on injection training sessions, and small-group discussions.

Sept. 17-19, 2015, in Amelia Island, Fla.
Lectures cover management of asymptomatic vascular lesions, including arteriovenous malformations, cavernous malformations, cerebral aneurysms and carotid stenosis. Topics include diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to stroke and a review of the major single-gene disorders that cause stroke.

Dec. 1-4, 2015, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
International experts focus on the prodromal aspects of the disorder. Concurrently, a Patient and Care Partner Track focuses on therapies and tools that optimize quality of life for families, care partners, interested professionals and those living with dementia with Lewy bodies.

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Identifying and Translating Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Diseases: Experience with Sphingolipids
In this Grand Rounds presentation, Michelle M. Mielke, Ph.D., discusses the importance of lipids in the central nervous system, the ceramides-Alzheimer's disease neuropathology link in animals, and the link between ceramides, Alzheimer's disease, and Alzheimer's disease pathology.

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